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Japanese American doctor examining patient (ddr-densho-151-417)
img Japanese American doctor examining patient (ddr-densho-151-417)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making an examination of an evacuee patient are Doctor Takahashi, Ear, Nose and Throat Specialist, and his wife who is his assistant. They are evacuees of Japanese ancestry from Los Angeles now spending the duration at this War Relocation Authority Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-417/
Young Japanese American reading comics (ddr-densho-151-472)
img Young Japanese American reading comics (ddr-densho-151-472)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee boy at this War Relocation Authority center reading the Funnies.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-472/
Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-379)
img Japanese American working in lath house (ddr-densho-151-379)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule beds in the lath house at the Manzanar Relocation Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-379/
Japanese American making camouflage net (ddr-densho-151-412)
img Japanese American making camouflage net (ddr-densho-151-412)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-412/
Japanese Americans taking art classes (ddr-densho-151-479)
img Japanese Americans taking art classes (ddr-densho-151-479)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. In the Art School at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-479/
Japanese Americans experimenting with guayule (ddr-densho-151-387)
img Japanese Americans experimenting with guayule (ddr-densho-151-387)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Chemists, nurserymen, and plant propagators at this War Relocation Authority center assemble to witness a new experiment in an attempt to resolve the amount of rubber produced in a small quantity of the guayule plant. Frank Hirosawa, research rubber chemist, is seated in the foreground.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-387/
Pregnant Japanese American visiting doctor (ddr-densho-151-418)
img Pregnant Japanese American visiting doctor (ddr-densho-151-418)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Young expectant mother (center) receives check-up from her doctor (left) in the medical clinic, now housed in a temporary building, at this War Relocation Authority Center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-418/
Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-364)
img Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-364)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school has been established with evacuee volunteer teachers, most of whom are college graduates. Attendance at this time is voluntary. No school equipment is as yet available and classes are also held outside the barrack building in the shade.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-364/
Manzanar Free Press staff (ddr-densho-151-430)
img Manzanar Free Press staff (ddr-densho-151-430)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. The staff of the Japanese language section of the Manzanar Free Press conferring with the editor, Joe Blamey.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-430/
Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-363)
img Students studying in shade (ddr-densho-151-363)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. Attendance at this time is voluntary. No school equipment is as yet available and available tables and benches are used. Classes are often held outside in the shade of the barrack building.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-363/
Orphan at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-444)
img Orphan at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-444)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An evacuee orphan, one of 65 now housed in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-444/
Japanese Americans studying in classroom (ddr-densho-151-367)
img Japanese Americans studying in classroom (ddr-densho-151-367)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-367/
Concentration camp gardens (ddr-densho-151-71)
img Concentration camp gardens (ddr-densho-151-71)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are growing flourishing truck crops for their own use in their "hobby gardens". These crops are grown in plots 10 x 50 feet between blocks of barracks at this War Relocation Authority center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-71/
Orphans at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-443)
img Orphans at Manzanar Childrens' Village (ddr-densho-151-443)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuee orphans from an institution in San Francisco who are now established for the duration in the Childrens' Village at this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry. Mrs. Harry Matsumoto, a University of California graduate, and her husband are superintendants of the Childrens' Village where 65 …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-443/
Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-55)
img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-55)
Original WRA caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-55/
Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)
img Japanese Americans watching baseball (ddr-densho-151-395)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry are enjoying a baseball game at this War Relocation Authority center. 80 teams having been organized to date with most of the playing is done between the barrack blocks.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-395/
Students in temporary classroom (ddr-densho-151-366)
img Students in temporary classroom (ddr-densho-151-366)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. An elementary school with voluntary attendance has been established with volunteer evacuee teachers, most of whom are college graduates. No school equipment is as yet obtainable and available tables and benches are used. However, classes are often held in the shade of the barrack building at this War Relocation …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-366/
Japanese Americans relaxing in shade (ddr-densho-151-396)
img Japanese Americans relaxing in shade (ddr-densho-151-396)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Evacuees of Japanese ancestry rest in the cool of the eveing beside their barrack apartments at this War Relocation Authority Center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-396/
Japanese American getting a haircut (ddr-densho-151-404)
img Japanese American getting a haircut (ddr-densho-151-404)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Common sight during the long summer evenings after the day's work is done. As yet, there are no barber shops.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-404/
Japanese Americans inspecting guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-381)
img Japanese Americans inspecting guayule plants (ddr-densho-151-381)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Guayule plantings are being inspected by Doctor Robert Emerson, (third from right) a bio-chemist and botanist from the California Institute of Technology and director of the guayule rubber experiment. He is here shown conferring with several of his staff of young evacuee scientists at Plot 4. There are 408 …
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-381/
Japanese Americans waiting in mess hall line (ddr-densho-151-369)
img Japanese Americans waiting in mess hall line (ddr-densho-151-369)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Part of a line waiting for lunch outside the mess hall at noon.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-369/
Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-413)
img Japanese Americans making camouflage nets (ddr-densho-151-413)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Making camouflage nets for the War Department. This is one of several War and Navy Department projects carried on by persons of Japanese ancestry in relocation centers.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-413/
Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-425)
img Japanese American working in garden (ddr-densho-151-425)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. William Katsuki, former professional landscape gardener for large estates in Southern California, demonstrates his skill and ingenuity in creating from materials close at hand, a desert garden alongside his home in the barracks at this War Relocation Authority center.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-425/
Camp garden (ddr-densho-151-476)
img Camp garden (ddr-densho-151-476)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. There are many evidences of skill and ambition within this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry, as seen by the flower garden under construction in the foreground. This family was in the nursery business before evacuation.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-476/
Japanese Americans resting near creek (ddr-densho-151-399)
img Japanese Americans resting near creek (ddr-densho-151-399)
Original caption: Manzanar Relocation Center, Manzanar, California. Family groups enjoying the mountain creek which flows along the outer border of this War Relocation Authority center for evacuees of Japanese ancestry.
https://ddr.densho.org/ddr-densho-151-399/
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